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________________ XL NAYAKUMARACARIU all the sandhis is 150 ( one hundred and fifty ) containing, in all, 2205 ( two thousand two hundred and five ) lines, besides the one kadavaka of sixteen lines and the following six verses at the end of the work constituting the author's prasasti. Five lines, in all, are defective in our text (1, 3, 8; 4, 15, 8; 5, 9, 8; 9, 25, 4,6 ) as their second foot is missing. It is possible that the poet himself left them incomplete by over-sight as in each case the defective line occurs in continuation of many similarly rhyming feet. Another explanation is that the missing feet may have been overlooked by the earliest scribe who copied the archetype, and so they could not find their way in to any of the later MSS. It is also not impossible that they be later interpolations meant to complete or amplify the descriptions which may have seemed insufficient to their author. As already said in the description of the MSS., some lines are found in one or two of them only, and our work may not be absolutely free from interpolations ( see notes on 6, 12, 4 ) Let us, however, hope that the missing feet may yet be recovered from MSS. that might be discoyered in future. Prakrit metre is divided into two kinds, according as the measure depends upon the number of syllables(varna-vslta) or on the syllabic quantity(matravitta). Indirectly. our poet has told us more than once that he was writing his poem in matra metre (Bhoyanu bhuttau matta-juttar Sarasi kaindem kavvu va uttau', 5, 2, 4; and Kavvam piva matta-samvariyam,' 6, 9, 5). He has, however not neglected the other kind entirely. But whatever the metre used, rhyme (padanta-yamaka ) is the essence of all. The metre that predominates in our work consists of two feet of sixteen matras each, rhyming with each other and having only the last few syllabic instants well regulated. Variations in these regulations furnish varieties of metre. 4. The following is a brief statement of the metres and the total nnmber of kadavakas in which they are usedMatra vstta Varna-vstta Alillaha 60 Samkhanari 3 Pajjhatika . Pramanika 1 Padakulaka 28 Bhujamgaprayata 1 .. Dipaka Samanika Madhubhara Mottiyadama Manjutilaka Malati 3 . +8 = 150 Duvai verses Gatha Upendravajra . 142 Ghatta verses Caupaia 29 Culiala Ullala 18 Digpala Ghatta Caubola 13 Sampada 15 Uianameable 17 Dhruvakas 159 P.P.AC. Gunratnasuri M.S. Jun Gun Aaradhak Trust
| SR No. | 036460 |
| Book Title | Nag Kumar Charita |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Pushpadant Mahakavi |
| Publisher | Bharatiya Gyanpith |
| Publication Year | 1972 |
| Total Pages | 352 |
| Language | Hindi, Sanskrit |
| Classification | Book_Devnagari |
| File Size | 337 MB |